De Gruyter Presents Open Access Distribution Model for Libraries – A Short Film Called...
At the 2013 German Librarians' Day the academic publisher De Gruyter will be presenting its distribution model for open access articles. Under the model,...
Wellcome director with golden touch bids farewell
The directorship of the Wellcome Trust is often described as the most powerful job in British science, but Sir Mark Walport insisted that the...
Royal Society of Chemistry adopts CC BY licence for Gold open access papers
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced today that it is making a change to copyright arrangements for open access papers published in...
eLife joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
eLife, publisher of the new open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, adds its weight to the international association and advocate...
SAGE welcomes OSTP announcement on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific...
Ziyad Marar, Global Publishing Director of the academic and professional publisher SAGE, has welcomed the OSTP Director's memorandum to Heads of Executive Department and...
Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers form alliance to further open science
Emerging publisher Frontiers is joining Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in a strategic alliance to advance the global open science movement. NPG, publisher of Nature,...
RSC welcomes House of Lords call for clarity on open access
The chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry today welcomed the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee's report on the implementation of...
Taylor & Francis joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
Taylor & Francis is delighted to be joining the community of open access (OA) publishers that are part of OASPA. OASPA represents the interest...
SPARC welcomes directive mooting open access to publicly funded research
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) today applauded President Obama for issuing a landmark Directive to ensure that the results of taxpayer-funded...
CCC named one of ‘10 to Watch’ in the Open Access space
Not-for-Profit Organization Named One of “10 to Watch” in the Open Access Space
Danvers, Mass. – Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading...
Launch of COAR Repository Observatory
Today we launch the new COAR Task Force “Repository Observatory” (RO) on the COAR website. The aim of this project will be the identification...
PeerJ Publishes Its First Articles
PeerJ (https://peerj.com), a new academic journal publisher, founded on the principles of affordability, innovation, and Open Access, published its first articles today.
PeerJ, launched by...